hey everybody,

some questions to address....

windows (vista, 7 and 8) requires a drive that is 3 times the size of the eventual finished first installation...only the os....this is a safety factor...ive worked on comps where the winblows is over 100 gb in size...blown out of control with unmanaged swap files and temp storage and instal wizard files not purged by the system...so if you are going to push a winblows installation to its max you need approx 100 gb for it..

partitions used to be active and the extended and then logical...with the latest versions of winblows....(vista,7,8)..all the drives can and should be formatted as acive primary...makes things easy if you are dual booting...which is now built into winblows as well..

if you use a defrag program....and you should even though there is a lot of info on the net saying NTFS doesnt require defragging..IT DOES AND SHOULD BE DONE REGULARLY...use pyriforms defraggler..its fast and can work in the background and should always be run prior to using ccleaner for cleaning free space and cluster tips and mft space...

win 7 has a partition shrink tool in the administrators tools in control panel..this allows you to shrink the active partition and then format the remainder as another active partition...lets see

control panel...administrators tools...computer management...storage...disk management (local)...right click on drive...select shrink volume...format as active partition...always use the full format tool never the quick as it only removes file headers...


have fun